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scrimp
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scrimp and save and pinch and scrape
to be very thrifty; to live on very little money, often in order to save up for something. We had to scrimp and save in order to send the children to college. The Smiths pinched and scraped all year in order to go on a Caribbean cruise.
See also: and, save

scrimp on something

to try to economize on the use of something; to fail to use enough of something. Please don't scrimp on the quality of the food. There is enough money. You don't have to scrimp on anything.
scrimp and save
to spend very little money, especially because you are saving it to buy something expensive (often + to do sth) We had to scrimp and save to buy our first house.
See also: and, save
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Money ain't everything, as the feller says, but $38-a-pound tomatoes are just a wee bit much for this scrimpy son of Scotland.
All thumbs, none green, in the garden by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
The firm, which was built on e-commerce sites that automatically generate income from purchases made through Visualsoft-owned domains, recently launched its latest addition - the budget beating scrimpy.
Online retail boom to help create jobs by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)
In the Willamette basin, the scrimpy snowpack is worse than two years ago, when it measured 68 percent of normal.
Lack of snowfall could precipitate costlier bills by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
 
 
 
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